Saturday May 19th, there will be a festival in the heart of Downtown Willoughby featuring a rib burnoff from 12pm to 8pm. The following restaurants will be participating as will yours truly who will be pitmaster for John's Cafe. More detail is on the webpage below, but all proceeds go to the USO and all military members in uniform eat for free. Hopefully the weather cooperates as a lot of people are pushing the event to make it something special. Link to the main page is here:

This is a sneak preview of what you ladies and gents will be feasting on this Saturday if you choose to come. We've had so much good feedback, I'm considering buying another 10-20 LBS to keep going all day.

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"All Beckett needs to do to cap off this mess is order some fried chicken and beer" – 5/10/12 before Beckett got chased in the 3rd at Fenway.

Pfffft....McTrash ain't got shit on me. Bone-in country ribs are the way to go. Any fool can do babybacks with a decent rub and plenty of time. I can make fork tender, flavorful country ribs on the grill in 2.5 hours. While technically part of the boston butt/blade, I prefer them over babybacks both in flavor and texture. Saturday's batch is getting a 42 hour dry rub and my mom's homemade BBQ sauce (best BBQ sauce I've had - ridiculous fusion of Memphis/KC/'Lil bit of Asian). Making about 10 LBS of potato salad which I tried last night and it was perfect. 80 degrees and sunny is the forecast so its going to be a fucking blast. Needless to say, I am completely jacked for this.

"All Beckett needs to do to cap off this mess is order some fried chicken and beer" – 5/10/12 before Beckett got chased in the 3rd at Fenway.

RickNashEquilibrium wrote:Ribs are officially rubbed down, all 70 LBS of them. Got a decent amount of baby-backs, about 15 LBS of boneless country ribs, and a ton of bone-in country racks.

Where are you going to be RNE? Are you cooking over at 1899 or something? I'd like to pop in and have a beer.

Outside of John's Cafe, 2 doors down from Kleifeld on the main strip right before Pranzo. Will be getting there around 9 to setup, first batch should be done around 12:30, judging is at 1pm near the gazebo I think.

"All Beckett needs to do to cap off this mess is order some fried chicken and beer" – 5/10/12 before Beckett got chased in the 3rd at Fenway.

To anyone that came out on Saturday, thank you for the patronage. If you came out later and were unable to get ribs, my apologies. From what we were told, everyone ran out by about 4:30pm with the exception of Pranzo and Wild Goose. We came in 7th place out of 14th and were told by a ton of customers we should have done a lot better and easily had the best sauce. Not bad for a ragtag bar with no kitchen and a guy who doesn't cook for a living.

"All Beckett needs to do to cap off this mess is order some fried chicken and beer" – 5/10/12 before Beckett got chased in the 3rd at Fenway.

RickNashEquilibrium wrote:To anyone that came out on Saturday, thank you for the patronage. If you came out later and were unable to get ribs, my apologies. From what we were told, everyone ran out by about 4:30pm with the exception of Pranzo and Wild Goose. We came in 7th place out of 14th and were told by a ton of customers we should have done a lot better and easily had the best sauce. Not bad for a ragtag bar with no kitchen and a guy who doesn't cook for a living.

Nice work - you coming by Harry Buff tomorrow?

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RickNashEquilibrium wrote:To anyone that came out on Saturday, thank you for the patronage. If you came out later and were unable to get ribs, my apologies. From what we were told, everyone ran out by about 4:30pm with the exception of Pranzo and Wild Goose. We came in 7th place out of 14th and were told by a ton of customers we should have done a lot better and easily had the best sauce. Not bad for a ragtag bar with no kitchen and a guy who doesn't cook for a living.

Nice work - you coming by Harry Buff tomorrow?

Got the tickets in the mail yesterday. Parking at West Side Market then taking the GLBC shuttle to the stadium. With work and whatnot, prolly will not be able to meet up with you guys at the Buff. If plans change, Ill try to post from my cell to see where you're at. Thanks!

"All Beckett needs to do to cap off this mess is order some fried chicken and beer" – 5/10/12 before Beckett got chased in the 3rd at Fenway.